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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage.

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Pitching A Startup To Investors: Ways To Legally Protect Your Ideas

YoungUpstarts

To prevent this and protect your most valuable assets in the early stages of entrepreneurship, here are the best ways to pitch while shielding your startup from exploitation. Of course as soon as you share your innovative concepts with third parties, you put them at risk of being emulated, adapted or outright copied. Use an NDA.

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Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

onstartups.com

Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). In my role as angel investor and informal startup advisor, the issue of NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) comes up about once or twice a month. . Given that most sophisticated people (investors, partners, etc.)

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Create your IP strategy early to avoid common pitfalls

NZ Entrepreneur

There is nothing wrong with using unregistered trade marks to save costs during the early stages of a venture. Otherwise, a company should never publicly disclose their invention to anyone without a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) until a decision is made to patent the technology and file an initial patent application.

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9 Unexpected Ways a Lawyer Can Help Your Startup

Up and Running

To learn some common legal pitfalls we’d all be better off avoiding, we asked nine founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what unexpected things they found themselves needing lawyers for in the early stages of their startups. Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements. Immigration. Term Sheets.